Taken from the 24th floor of Hilton Americas Hotel: tinyurl.com/2og9ru An stunning view of Houston from Galena Park and the Houston Ship Channel area westward to the heart of the downtown area, especially so since there are two pillars not shown in this panorama, but yet the view can almost be considered seamless except that the railing shows where there should be a pillar(s).

The GigaPan Stitcher comes though with flying colors on this one.

The view, taken from the 24th floor and was breathtaking as I took it using my trusty Nikon D70 (soon to be retired) and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens. There is no Photoshop on this panorama, only the GigaPan Stitcher, and the collection of photos were taken hand-held.

I think gigapan.org ought to pay for
you to spend a night as a guest at the Hilton so
that you can shoot this again with the SX110 and
include a few more rows. You have already shown
that you can take multi-row, multi-column images
by hand and without a tripod (eg tinyurl.com/l63avx ). The columns
shouldn't be too much of a problem.Just
mention that you have been commissioned by an
organisation that is sponsored by NASA, UNESCO and
National Geographic and uses the same leading-edge
technology that was used to make an image of the
President and got 10 million hits. I am sure the
manager will arrange to have the columns removed
for you.

I assure you that I could not have taken this
except for taking it hand-held. If I were to take
it with a tripod and a GigaPan imager, I would
have to have the columns in the panorama and would
not get the view as I present here in this
panorama. I went up to the top and some dude was
going into the area through a locked door that
only hotel guests can enter. I enetered with him
and walked past the swiming pool out onto the
terrace, saw the plane and took a few photos, then
looked around and decided to take the front where
the railing is. I then climbed up on top of a
barrier on each side where I could lean out a bit
to take the side views and I fear that the people
around me at first though I was climbing up there
to jump (I was only a few inches from this could
have happened) , but no one said anything and I
left. I did not know how good this really was
until I saw that I had some matches and did the
stitch and was pretty happy with the results.

This is a superb shot and a superb gigapan. I am a
total sucker for US city skylines and this
one's a peach! Of course we don't have
comparable vies in the UK - views like this make
me think of Bladrunner. Please please please go
back and retake this with your gigapan imager and
your SX110! Lots more like this please!